MikeTM150

will look good with a chip box conversion!

Well thought i'd give you the next funny turn of events, he turned up monday morning expecting to work. Walked in workshop complaining that his phone had been ringing all night with dodgy people wanting things (i'll leave the rest to your imagination). I suggested that must be annoying having people ring you at all times of the night, at which point he turns purple in the face. I gave all the other lads their to do list, and when he was left standing on his own he just said 'well i guess you found and out and i'm guessing I no longer get any work from you?' to which the reply was 'very perceptive, perhaps you should have used that before you started the prank calls' to which he replied ' you can't just sack me, how am i going to pay for the tractor?' reply ' oh well not my problem lad!' At which point he jumped in his fendt and drove out like he had a firebomb up his arse, recieved a letter this morning from some solicitor, stating it was unfair dismissal........ i think he forgot to tell them he was a self-employed owner driver.

well done!

you must have the patience of a saint, i think that would be a wise conversation to have!!!

or just do your class 'E' and tow a bigger trailer!

wait for it, I'm sure they're lurking waiting to pronounce their allegiance......... couldn't agree with your more, a landy is a good farm hack, nothing else will fit its function!!!

i can see where your all coming from and can't deny it was another route i have taken, perhaps it was a better one in your eyes. But I'm sure you all know there's some people out there who won't ever admit they're wrong even in the face to face reasoning about the facts. He's one, he's had plenty of warning before about his large scale vocal cords, there's only way he's going to work out right from wrong and that's when he loses everything from under him. That's starts by being the butt of ur own prank and the slow realisation that you've just blown the money pot to your nice new fendt tractor. That's going to hurt a whole lot more than me trying to reason with a dipstick over some prank that's not so funny in the real world. I didn't get to where I've worked to now without some serious face to face discussions, but when they fail you have to take a more laid back approach and let trip themselves up. Its a strange situation, perhaps some more background would have made it clearer on my choices but ultimately its about the dipstick who can't keep his mouth closed.

well that thought did cross my mind as i was doing it, but then if your stupid enough to play a prank like that on your boss and then broadcast it across the airwaves and think he won't find out I'm betting on there not been enough brain cells to work out who did it. Cuz he rang again three times last night............... in the space of an hour He might be loosing his i-phone somewhere he'd rather something that big wasn't put, and i'm sure a size 13 steel toe cap will work it in there just fine and dandy!

seeing as only me and the wife know its been happening then there ain't any other way he'd know about it. Exactly why we haven't told anyone else for this reason!!! He's 22, ought to know better at his age. And as for ringing him in middle of night, i think the dubious websites google found and his number is now splashed across will provide many many many more late night phone calls than i could ever bother ringing him up for!!! Your right, revenge is best served chilled!

After an 'episode' i had today i thought this might be interesting thread....... Been having prank phone calls for last few weeks, middle of the night jobs, phone rings and no one there, number withheld, ring four or five times in a row kinda thing. Run large business from phone, can't turn it off incase of an emergency callout or problem on the farm with cows or owt, don't wanna change number as it wouldn't be difficult to find new number out and carry on. Turns out to be a subby of mine, who does quite alot of driving for us with his tractor when were busy......... just brought himself a brand new 200hp fendt for this up coming season. Thinks he's a funny boy, likes to tell everyone everything on the CB's in the tractors, found out as i walked past one of my tractors in the yard with the door open and heard him bragging how he was the one ringing me and i was never gonna find out cuz i was too dumb to know how......... wonder how funny he'll find it when i don't ring him with anymore work this year. He ought to know better as his big mouth on this open to anyone to hear CB radio system has earned him a kicking for telling everyone he was sleeping with a local farmers young daughter when he wasn't. Rant over, blood has stopped boiling now!

ur not wrong there!!!

I like it. clean simple and easy to use, but i'd agree with steve the contact me bit needs to be last on the list. Perhaps also a few pics of you actually working a piece to be able to put a face to the work helps bring the life to piece for people. Good luck:thumbup:

The farm workhorse did that in feb too......... and its a landrover!!!

Can't say fairer than that!

no expert but i'd turn it into firewood and plant a larger sized new one!

PM Nick Channer he's prob best place to start!

I don't want one!! Just couldn't think why you would ever want one, but guess Big J's is one reason though not sure i'd wanna be on the axe after him with that setup!!

Just been looking on ebay, avoiding the crap on TV, and spotted an 18" bar and chain for an MS880.........can someone answer me WHY?????? :confused1:

we got the local quarry to supply some rocks to block off a customers sheds where ravers kept going through any fencing he put up. They weighed about 4 tons each and it took all the grunt of our big Volvo loading shovel to carry/drag them. They worked out very cheap but were only about 4 miles from the quarry so picked them up with tractor and trailer 3 at a time. Good luck with your project!

My wife uses everything from the saw bench and saw (apparently i don't leave in tidy piles unless its a big trunk for the 880) and its good stuff. Otherwise she has use straw from the farm, but they pull less sawdust out the boxes than straw which is why she likes it!!

Well you've all said what i was thinking, probably get away with not needing it. And ulimately if i do need it in the future i can buy it, where as if i buy it and don't use it i'll be bit pissed off!! Hoping to be able to use my browns saw bench to rip down the slabs and boards. Just depend on how heavy they are i guess, but with a telehandler i'm sure i can sort cummat out! Many Thanks Again!

Now where did prince william in his rescue helicopter go? Drop him in the atlantic and see how he likes swimming infront a oil tanker!!

right, just in process of ordering an alaskan, and was wondering if i really need a mini mill to square the edge of timbers of or can manage wwithout it?

sorry to be a downer on this, but my 04 plate ranger overheated (cuz i didn't check the rad was clear before a long tow ) and it hit the red about 30mins down motorway and i stopped soon as i noticed. It cracked the head and warped the block. Never got it to seal again not matter what we tried so i stuck in the local auctions. At the time and looking back, i did wonder if there was something else going on like a water/oil heat exchanger in the engine that was causing the problem. Never got to the bottom of it, i'm afraid so can't help but i hope for your sake it isn't as bad as mine was!! Viscous coupling is bit the bit that joins ur rad fan to the drive from the engine, it controls how hard the fan draws air through the rad according to the temp of the engine!

Probably to much thinking! Crap maybe, but then it's not female so it'll never be perfect! ;-p